National festival of Rock concluded in Camagüey

Sounds of the City concluded after the functions of 12 groups of six counties in the amphitheater bordering to the Casino Country, bigger urban park of the island.

Musical bands of the capital of the country, Santiago de Cuba, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila and the headquarters acted in the amphitheater, one of the bordering facilities of a place where the exuberant vegetation and a diversity of units of public services converge in the proximities of the local urban historical center.

Favored by the filial of Camagüey of the Association Hermanos Saíz, the event also included in its most recent conversatories appointment, exhibition of video-clips and presentations of publications, about the one referred artistic current.

The forum is one of the six national dedicated to a rhythm that has also, in its expressive heterogeneity, influence of its establishment in the country.

That is one of the prints left in the gender--arisen in the XX century in the United States-- of the denominated Latin rock, permeated by sonorities characteristic of Latin America and interpreted in Spanish.(Adolfo Silva Silva)

Musicians of Camagüey reaffirm commitment with their Revolution

The commitment of the musicians of Camagüey with Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, the Communist Party of Cuba and with their town was reaffirmed in recent cultural patriotic veiled of condemnation to the mediatics manipulations of the Yankees and the European Union, against the sovereignty and the independence of the nation.

Peolple of Camagüey rejects political and mediatic anticuban campaign, organized and financed by United States.

Congregated in the Provincial Center Music in the provincial capital, integral of several groupings b of Camagüey revealed their condemnation to the new campaign and manifested the decision of changing their instruments for the weapons to defend the homeland if was necessary.

For the scenary paraded groupings like the group The Agramontinos, the band Jaleo, Acheré, Colach and the Group Girón who reaffirmed the attachment to the earth that saw them be born in their interpretations and to the Revolution.

“Our patriotic and revolutionaries convictions go next to our artistic creation. We will defend the socialism and the independence. Above all the Homeland is. With the Revolution everything, against the Revolution, with any right.”

That is feeling of the musicians of Camagüey before the maneuvers coarse against Cuba. (Eric Pacheco Fandiño)

Ready the county of Camagüey for the elections

Lapsed the dynamic test in Camagüey with a positive general balance, Tania Rodríguez Mexidor, president of the Provincial Electoral Commission (CEP), affirmed that the vast territory of Cuba is clever for the partial elections of next Sunday April 25.

The maximum electoral authority here, said that the attendance to its duties of the members to the 2 035 schools, district commissions, municipal, provincial and personal of insurance was massive from seven in the morning of this Sunday until the conclusion of the general rehearsal.

“Because of the last rains in some territories of the county difficulties were confronted with the communications, in the fundamental thing phone, and as long as they were solved, we put on approval the alternatives foreseen to guarantee the data and electoral parts”, the president of the CEP enlarged in Camagüey.

Other details, referred to imprecisions with the insurance transport, substitution of vowels of electoral tables for illness, and fullness of means in some schools, were also solved as the dynamic test, necessary preamble advanced to guarantee some flowing votes and of total quality on coming Sunday.

This electoral advance, allowed to verify in real time the complex organized device and led by some 10 000 authorities electoral and numerous members of the organizations of masses and forces and technical means of support.

The next April 25, starting from seven in the morning will open their doors the electoral schools so that more than half million of electing of Camagüey choose the 1 008 delegates to the municipal assemblies of the Popular Power, among the 2 361 nominated in public assemblies.(Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)

Concludes in Camagüey process of provincial meetings

X Congress of the ANAP

The provincial meeting of the rural sector in Camagüey put an end to the wide process of meetings that were made heading for the tenth Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers in the whole country (ANAP).

The 120 delegates analyzed different productive topics in an eminently agricultural territory, with cattle predominance, where the contribution of the peasant represents more than 70% of the foods of populational consumption.

The meeting had the presence of Ulises Rosales del Toro, Miinister of Agriculture, José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice-president of the Council of State, Orlando Lugo Fonte national president of the ANAP, Julio Cesar García, First Secretary of the Communist Party in the county, as well as other authorities that reaffirmed the strong necessity of the increase of the production in Cuba like via of saving imports in the difficult world economic situation.

When analyzing the results of the 2009, Machado pointed out as positive the take off of indicators as the bovine milk, the honey of bees, feeds of bulls and the swinish meat, in spite of the step of strong hurricanes during the year 2008.

" We should examine what we lack that is a lot, because hidden potentialities exist. As it is possible that after a hurricane recover so quick the products? in that we should congratulate Camagüey. It is human question and of effort. It is necessary to diversify, to change the mentality, to work with more rationality because we are distant of autosupply. Cuba still cares 80% of the foods and here inside of we can produce a good part, especially the food for the animals and with it to diminish the food purchase", remarked Machado .

Among the vulnerable points of the current dry period is the cane of sugar and the viands so that in the execution of the commitments of the producers this great part of the advance of both segments.

The milk and the cattle raising, continue as the main strength of the peasants in Camagüey who contribute 85% of their production and with 68 million liters like plan in this year 2010, they would compute more than half of the delivery to the industry in the county but outstanding of the country in this sense.

Of this meeting, with sessions Saturday and Sunday, left elect the group of 51 delegates, direct 6 of them, to the National Congress with celebration date May 17.(Oreidis Pimentel Pérez )